Posted on 01/09/2017 6:09:46 PM PST by Mariner
We Americans love our guns -- and apparently, we love them twice as much as we used to.
We first twigged to this trend in 2015, when an astounding story on The Washington Post's Wonkblog site revealed that the average number of firearms owned by a "typical gun-owning household" had roughly doubled between 1994 and 2013, to 8.1 guns per household. The trend has only gone up since.
How do we know this? A recent Harvard/Northwestern University joint study estimates that America's 319 million citizens own about 265 million guns today. And although from 1994 to 2016 the number of Americans who own guns decreased from 25% to 22% -- and has in fact been declining over the past 20 years -- FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System data show that gun sales set new records for the past 18 straight months through November.
Translation: Fewer households owning guns, but more absolute gun sales, equals an increase in the number of guns owned per gun-owning household.
(Excerpt) Read more at fool.com ...
They also claim 265 million guns total. That underestimates by 140 million guns.
The low number of guns confirms that they are missing tens of millions of gun owners.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-record-year-for-nics-background.html
There have been 150 million guns added since 1999 alone.
Mrs Freedomlover knows about how many I have. How much I paid for them - not so much.
No serial numbers required on .22 rifles and shotguns before 1968.
They probably aren’t counting the illegal guns being traded and sold in ghettos.
Motley Fool is a pretty good site — at least it used to be. The guys used to have a financial show on one of the cable news networks.
H’mmmm, what the make of the “0.1” part of a gun is? Do folks have an occasional spare part that is being counted? Perhaps only half of a rifle barrel is in their possession to give the .1? Or perhaps it is like those families that have 2. and a percentage children.
Yes I’m being sarcastic and joking.
Not really. I do miss the over/under .22/.410 rifle/shotgun my dad gave me when I was 12 though.
One of my son’s inherited a beautiful, mint, Mossberg .22LR bolt-action that is incredibly accurate - built in 1948.....a keeper for sure.
Are you male or female? I understand if you prefer to not say.......
Male Retired Army.
These studies aren’t worth spit because everbody knows you don’t tell anybody how many guns you have. Or what caliber they may be. Long or short, old-style or semi.
Nothing. Not even here.
Exactly, never disclose information about gun ownership, the information will be used against you someday by liberals.
“For knives, I have a large chef’s knife, a small chef’s knife, a paring knife, a tomato knife, a sandwich knife, a carving knife, a bread knife, eight steak knives, a knife sharpener, even an electric knife (semi-automatic?). Each has its purpose, and I don’t arm up with multiple knives.”
What, no pocket knife? Hunting knife? Skinning knife? Survival knife? Utility knife? Taping knife? Butter knife? Palette knife?
I think your collection is highly incomplete.
-PJ
Thank you for your service - one son Army vet who did college on GI Bill - family all Navy - I tried to join in Vietnam war but was rejected tho I was star in ROTC....another son w/6 years in Navy is finishing degree in Mechanical Engineering and will return to Navy as officer planning to fly jets.......
Ged ouda here...
“:^)
Neither am I.
Now he's got a MS in Aerospace Engineering Making Missiles/Rockets for the Defense Dept. The Navy used 2 of the Missie's he was Lead Eng. on to shoot down that Russian Satellite the was loosing its Orbit and going to crash into the U.S.
More Hellfires!
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